Re: The U.S. War on Journalists

Jack Linthicum wrote:
> On May 15, 2:37 pm, "Billzz" <billzzstr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> "Andrew Swallow" <am.swal...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>
>> news:qMmdnfNJra8I47HVnZ2dnUVZ8t7inZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>> Billzz wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>>> I was just passing by and note that US military people have never
been
>>>> protected by the Geneva Convention.  Not the Germans, not the
Japanese,
>>>> nor the North Koreans, nor the North Vietnamese, nor the Viet Cong,
nor
>>>> whatever Islamic factions in the Middle East have ever followed the
>>>> Geneva Conventions.
>>> We can say a lot about the Nazis but the German military did respect
>>> the Geneva Convention with respect to the British and Americans.  The
>>> "Coldiz" and "Great Escape" film stories would be very different
>>> otherwise.  An ealier version was used in WW2.
>> It's a good thing you were not there and did not "look" Jewish.
>>
>> http://www.thirteen.org/pressroom/release.php?get=29
>>
>>
>>
>>> The USSR did not respect the Geneva Convention and was punished by
>>> getting its soldiers killed.
>>> Andrew Swallow
> 
> Well, 50 of the 73 that got out in that great escape were shot by the
> Gestapo. IIRC the original "real" escapers were all Sergeants, and I
> thought they were all British.
> 

All officers Many nationalities
http://www.historyinfilm.com/escape/real8.htm

Vince

> 
> There was a manual for security risks like myself during the period
> after the Korean War that had their story in it.